Breaking COP18 news from IPCC chief Pachauri: "For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not be attending the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, chairman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri has said.“For the first time in the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been invited,” he told Gulf Times in Doha.COP18 is to be held from November 26 to December 7....Later, he told Gulf Times he did not know why the IPCC has not been invited to COP18, something that has happened never before.“I don’t know what it is. The executive secretary of the climate change secretariat has to decide. I have attended every COP and the chairman of the IPCC addresses the COP in the opening session,” he explained....Earlier, in his address at the FSDL conference, Dr Pachauri said a reduction of up to 50% in crop output could happen in rain fed areas by 2020.